Brushing-machine for cloth manufacturing.



No. 706,l32. v Patented Aug. 5, I902. e. w. VOELKER.

BRUSHING MACHINE FOR CLOTH MANUFACTURING.

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G. W. VOELKER.

BRUSHING MACHINE FUR CLOTH MANUFACTURING.

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GEORGE W. VOVELKER, OF WOONSOOKET, RI-I DE ISLAND.

BRUS'HING-MACHINE FOR CLOTH MANUFACTURING.

SPECIFICATION forming partpf Letters Patent No.-706,132, dated August 5, 1902. v

' Application filedv Jiune 12, 1901..

T0 on whom it may concern: Be it known that I, GEORGE 'W. VOELKER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Woonsocket, in the county of Providence and Stateof Rhode Island,' have in-- vented a new and useful Improvement in Brushing-Machines for Cloth Mann facturing, of which the following, with the drawings hereby made a part hereof, is a description.

The machine isdesigned togive the newly-1 manufactured cloth a much more thoroughbrushing than is obtained by the ordinary brushing-.machinemand thereby remove many imperfections caused in the yarn which the the brushes, as hereinafter more fully de scribed. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the machine; and Fig. 4, a detail drawing showing how the rolls may be adjustedto vary the pressure of the brushes upon the cloth, as

hereinafter described.

The machine consists of a frame, prefer-' ably made of iron, consisting of two ends, as A, joined together by proper cross-ties B B and with the rolls C,D D, andE mounted between .the sides or ends A. The cloth (designated as X X X) to bebrushed passes over these rolls, being taken from a pile upon thefloor or other convenient place and being wound up upon the roll E; butit is to be understood that the particular manner in which the cloth is made to pass through the machine and over the brushes is not material. Also mounted between the upper portions'of the frames A is a series of disks F, carrying brushes (shown separately in Fig. 2) disposed as follows: The disks are arranged in pairs upon each end of short shafts carried in a yoke-casting Y, with a pulley G mounted upon each shaft between the sides of the yoke and so between the disks. (See Fig. 1.)

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pulley G is mounted upon a shaft driven by a cone-pulleyvK, which in turn is driven by overhead shaftingin the usual manner. The brushes H Hare conveniently made rectangular and inserted and fastened in'recesses in the disks, but might almost equallywell be made by inserting the bristles directly in disks of wood or metal and screwing or otherwise fastening the disks upon the ends of the shafts. 'In using the machine the cloth X X X is caused to pass up over the brushesin one set of disks and down over those upon the other ends of the same shafts. The brushes may be driven at any proper speed, and the speed may be readily varied by means of the conepulleyK, Fig. 3. Theseb'rushes th'us'give the surface of the cloth a thorough brushing in all directions as it passes over them, and thus domuch more efiective work than the brushes ordinarily used, which always operate to brush the nap in the direction of its length only.

In practice it is preferable to make at least some of the rolls D slightly adjustable, so as cause the cloth to run across the brushes with ,g eater or less pressure to suit diiiierent .styles of cloth. Thus these rolls may be mounted in sliding bearings made adjustable "by means of the screw L, as shown in Fig. 4.

a. shaft with means between the two to rotate the brushes upon each end of the pairs of both, the brushes on one end of the several disks. pairs being disposed side by side in two rows across the cloth to be brushed and with the GEORGE VOELKER 5 brushes in one row placed to cover the spaces Witnesses:

between those of the otherrow, and means for THEODORE F. TILLINGHAST, causing the cloth to pass successively over ANNIE A. WILLIS. 

